Chloé Deambrogio

Chloe is a Junior Research Fellow in Law at Merton College, Oxford, and a Research Associate at the University of Oxford’s Centre for Criminology. She completed a DPhil in Criminology at the University of Oxford in 2020 as an ESRC and an Amelia Jackson Scholar (Exeter College, Oxford). Prior to joining Merton, she was a Modern Law Review Fellow and a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Exeter.

Chloe’s research sits at the intersection of critical legal theory, death penalty scholarship, mental disability law, and race and gender studies. Her first book, Judging Insanity, Punishing Difference (Stanford University Press 2023), draws on unpublished trial records to explore how race and gender stereotypes shaped expert and lay understandings of mental illness and criminal responsibility in Texas capital cases over the 20th century.